现在的导演什么的拍历史电视剧，大多只考虑收视率，全然不顾历史真相，一律唯风头正盛的港台式言情戏说的肥皂泡是瞻。当然有个别喜欢钻牛角尖我是流氓我怕谁的家伙会这么争辩，还真有人对我这么说过：“凭什么说史书上记载的都是真的，而戏说历史剧里面的就没发生过？”话说到这个份上，我自然难以反驳，总不能把死人们都挖出来挨个问吧。

　　历史虽然可以在一定程度上戏说，但毕竟是一件严肃的事情。现今国人很少有认真读史的，影响最深的莫过于这些电视剧了。然而正因为过分的刻意戏说和美化，掩盖了历史的真相。如果真的有电视里演的那么好，我们还不如到退回封建王朝算了。

　　这是令有志之士无不忧心忡忡的形势。很多国家都奉行“忘记历史就意味着背叛”，以历史为教育，以历史为指南。作为中国主流生活之一的电视剧，却似乎正在以浮光掠影的奢华和剪不断理还乱的调情掩盖真实历史的冷酷无情，大有教唆国民忘记和背叛历史之嫌。长此以往，是极其危险的事情。

 

附记：

　　现在有一线曙光，就是《贞观之治》，基本上是按照史实来拍的。这也难怪有人把它和《贞观长歌》对比后说太沉闷了，因为没有那么多耀眼的外表和男女的纠缠。但遗憾的是，原本 80 集的《贞观之治》被审查部门的爷们儿大刀阔斧劈成了 50 集，玄武门事变、征高丽没了，突厥也被改称“草原十八部”（看口形就清楚）。我不知道他们这样做的居心和目的，但我知道结果肯定不会好。

　　最近我正在看电视剧《贞观之治》。以前很不屑看这类历史题材，是因为过多的戏说掩盖了历史真相。但这一部不同，很有正史的味道。戏说之风盛行的阴暗时代中总算出现了一片阳光。

I prefer Microsoft's web designer because it's easier and more friendly.

 

    FrontPage has been dead, and then there came SharePoint Designer, shipped with 2007 office system. However, the two look very much alike. SharePoint Designer does have enhancements, such as better CSS support, but in my eyes, it's only another upgrades of FrontPage with a new name.

 

    Today I tried Mirosoft's newest Expression Web, which is said to be an opponent of Adobe Dreamweaver. However, I saw another upgrades of FrontPage. The three have very similar GUI, and I notice no difference between SharePoint Designer and Expression Web, from installation to application, except the product banner and splash screen.

 

    Their functionalities are very close, so why there are two? Seems that Microsoft has begun to go downhill.

Normally when you are coding, NetBeans can display a list of ralated code for assistance. But if a C function's return type is not void or a primitive one such as macros, code assistance is not available.

Tools: NetBeans IED 5.5.1 & Sun Microsystems Application Server PE 9.

Tutorial: Sun's Your First Cup.

 

In the beginning, I would never wanna learn enterprise programming. I've tried to create, build, deploy and run that "First Cup" several times, and failed all the time. I did exactly follow those steps, but only received different errors. That is why I used to consider enterprise programming much too complicated and annoying.

 

However, as a modern developer, wheather you wanna be or not, you have only two choice: going lower-level or upper-level. Lower-level means someting like DSP programming, which can be more annoying than the latter. So I think I should laern something upper-level.

 

I preffer Java and don't appreciate Microsoft's .Net. There're lots of Java EE programming frameworks, and I've chosen Sun's EJB 3. I've heard the previous version of EJB are all too complicated, but EJB 3 takes advantages of some light-weight frameworks such as Hibernate and becomes flexible.

 

Again, I started to taste the First Cup. Things seemed never go as expected. In the step of "Creating a Web Service Client for the firstcup-war Web Module", an error complained that downloading WSDL failed. I even tried to copy all original sources from the tutorial (surely with some necessary modifies), but nothing changed. For days I couldn't figure out why. I almost wanted to give up again.

 

While solving a problem always requires patience and sometimes luck. This time I got both. I noticed that the WSDL URL started with "http://localhost:8080", which should be the default Web service address. Thus I launched IE and entered it into the address bar. And the page opened, and... Oh, it was Oracle database! Oracle database was installed after Sun's App Server, so it grabbed the control of port 8080. Quite a interesting trouble.

 

My First Cup successfully runned at last, which also initialized my learning path of Java EE programming.